The patch didn't seem to work for me either... I got the error 'Unable to change virtual machine power state: Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to' in Workstation 9 and vmplayer terminates as I try to open a VM.

The installation is on Ubuntu 12.04.1 Kernel 3.5.x

Hopefully vmware can fix this in their next update.

***UPDATE

Just wanted to add that my vm's have started working... Last thing I did was run this command:

sudo rm /lib/modules/$(uname -r)/misc/vm*

Which I think deletes all Vmware modules... and after a restart to my suprise all is working.